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Food Appreciation [Week 3, Period 4, Mon. 9/13]

Monday afternoon meant food class and today they were back in the classroom. Seemingly without food. John was at the front, patiently waiting for the kids to show up. Hopefully they were hungry.

He started talking when class was meant to start as timing was an issue today. "Now that football season's started and someone's bound to have a party, I think it's important you all understand the most important food to any gathering here on Earth."

John paused, letting that sink in as he paced at the front of the classroom, waiting to see the man in blue appear in the doorway. Right on time. "Pizza! Today we're trying every kind I could get the guys down at Pizza Planet to mix up for us. So there's cheese, pepperoni, mushroom, veggie, meat explosion, and probably anything else you can think up." Because he was good at giving orders and had the pizza man setting up the boxes on the table while he talked. "There's also some stuff I wouldn't try, but you might want to. Like the everything pizza with and without sardines. Hey, I hear sardines are good for the heart. Who knew? Anyway, get eating and then I want you to compare methods. Is pizza better enjoyed folded? Cut with knife and fork? Is there a wrong way to do this? You tell me. Or, more likely, each other 'cause who wants to talk to the teacher, right?"

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Name, symbol, and bff icon.

George Cooper, ᵮ

Luke Castellan, Λ

Bobby Drake, ƛ (or t͡ɬ for the non-Americans)

Edited 2010-09-13 05:22 (UTC)

Jane Lane, @

Chuck Bartowski, %

Alex Karev, ∀

Kate Gregson, ♠

Helen Haras-Uquara

Princess Ariel, ♥

Andy Gallagher

Peter Bishop, $

Calvin, #

Joolushko Tunai Fenta Hovalis, *

Kon-El, ♦

Listen, wonder where the hell the food is.

Was it wrong that Jane's stomach started growling before she came to this class? It was practically Pavlovian. Of course that thought was going to make her wonder if this was all some sort of experiment...

Ariel wasn't concerned about the initial lack of food. In fact, the lack of food right in front of her made her terribly bouncy and excited. She was almost certain that there would be a food surprise as soon as Mr. Sheppard got finished talking about whatever he was talking about it.

Of which she wouldn't remember what it was, because she was too busy thinking up all the wonderful possibilities of food surprises. She loved surprises! Especially ones she could eat!

Today's class just cemented John as Peter's favorite teacher.

But really, not for the right reasons.

Eat the pizza and answer the question, or just talk about anything you want.

Some people don't like getting cheese grease on their hands and so knife and fork is a good choice. What's your preference?

George was going to eat the pizza with his hands because that meant he could eat more of it faster. He was also going to sample every single one of the kinds. What? He was a growing boy. He needed his fuel.

"Knives and forks are sacrilege," Jane muttered, much happier to peruse what pizza looked good enough to eat with her hands.

"But they're so much fun!" gushed Ariel, with her speared pizza, clearly on the fast track to winning Jane over with a comment like that.

"Huh," Jane said, totally having not expected anyone to call knives and forks that ever. "Do you think spoons are a barrel of laughs, too?"

"Oh, absolutely," said Ariel, bobbing her head enthusiastically before she laughed and held out her hands. "And don't even get me started about sporks!"

No. Seriously. Don't.

Sorry about this.

"What's with sporks?" Jane asked. Every school needed a crazy person, right? Apparently Jane felt the need to engage.

And Ariel, really, was all to eager to oblige.

"Aren't they just the coolest?" she gushed. "I mean, how brilliant! A fork and a spoon, all in one! I mean, the only thing anyone could possibly hold against a spork is that it means that you have to forsake having a fork and a spoon, but sometimes it's a very easy sacrifice. I do feel bad, though; I mean, the fork and the spoon are so great on their own, why would you need a spork, but the novelty of it is just great."

"You eat pizza with your hands, period," Alex said before doing exactly that. "It's not a knives and fork food. That's dainty. And napkins were invented to wipe the grease off."

Yeah, Kate was more focused on eating than she was on discussing the merits of one way of eating over another. She thought it was context depended, anyway.

And right now she was using her hands because she had missed breakfast and she was hungry, dammit.

This was one food Helen was familiar with and liked very much so she just dug in - no knive and fork, just hands here.

Pizza! Ariel knew it would be something good! She hadn't guessed pizza, but she was very pleased to accept this, yes.

Also, she was eating it with a fork. Shut up, she freaking loved forks, ohmygosh. One or two might have found a way into her school bag, shh.

Nothing like stabbing a slice of pizza in the middle, lifting it up, and then nibbling on it as it hung from the fork like a speared fish. Delicious!

Edited 2010-09-13 14:46 (UTC)

"Depends on the pizza," Peter said, simply. "You try eating a deep dish stuffed pizza with your hands. You can't do it. It's a knife and fork job. Your average New York thin crust, hands only and folded too."

He knew a lot about pizza, it seemed.

It probably went against the spirit of the class for Calvin to stack his slices of pizza on top of each other before he started eating.

That didn't stop him doing it, though.

Pizza wasn't something Joolushko ate often. She'd never considered eating it with utensils, probably because she'd never seen anyone here eat it that way, which was why she had a veggie slice in her hand right now.

"I thought it was meant to be eaten held in your hands," she said. "I didn't realize utensils were ever used."

John's going for the folded pizza method of eating. Pepperoni, in case you care.

I blame Sam's Tumblr mockery of me and my knife and fork ways for this post.

Pizza is totes best eaten by eating the crust first and then working your way in. *nods*

Maybe you shouldn't eat your pizza like a freak.

*edits sign in ping thirty zillion times like a nerd* SORRY

Knives and forks are appropriate for deep dish pizza.

And nothing else.

That's exactly what I was thinking.

Well, homemade pizza sometimes, too. When I make pizza, sometimes, it's so loaded with toppings that the crust doesn't hold to being held. XD BUT IT'S DELICIOUS.

Word. Deep Dish, or stuffed pizza, or pizza that you've loaded so many toppings on the crust is no longer able to maintain structural integrity.

Not that I really ever do the latter anymore since college. :D

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